Native American Studies category: 1415 books
The Salish People: Volume III
The Mainland Halkomelem
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Volume III of The Salish People deals with the Mainland Halkomelem, the people of the Fraser River from Vancouver to Chilliwack, and includes the earliest account of B.C. archaeological sites. The Salish People collects for the first time field reports (circa 1895) written by ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout.
by Bridget Moran
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W.A.C. Bennett, charging the welfare department with gross neglect in addressing the problems of the province's needy. This very public dispute formed a small part of...
Dying from Improvement
Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story. Repeating details of fatty livers, mental illness, alcoholic belligerence, and a mysterious incapacity to cope with modern life, the legal proceedings declare that...
by Major Jonathan T. Neumann U.S. Army
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Based on his background, education, training, and the information available at the time of his attack, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer made good decisions as he lead the 7th Cavalry in its defeat at the Little Bighorn.
Custer received the standard pre-commissioning education that West Point...
by Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Along the notorious Rogue River, gold seekers, crazed by the discovery of nuggets that made them rich overnight, are at war with one another. The river itself swarms with salmon, bringing along with them another kind of wealth and violent fighting between fishermen and the fish-packing monopoly. Into...
by Zane Gray
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
A certified classic by the master of Western fiction Zane Grey.
With cattle rustling on the rise in the cattle town of Randall, Wyoming, newcomers Martha Ann Dixon and Andrew Bonning join the ranchers in their fight to protect their livestock.
“Take this hombre’s gun, Tenderfoot,”...
by James Buckner Barry
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“Although Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were more celebrated, Buck Barry did as much or more to tame the Old Southwest. During a long and useful life he was a professional soldier, stock farmer, sheriff, and member of the legislature. His memoirs are never dull, and no wonder.
In 1845 young...
by J. Evetts Haley
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book, which was first published in 1952, first began as a history of San Angelo and the adjacent region drained by the Conchos rivers. It grew, in writing, into a history of West Texas. It embodies author J. Evetts Haley’s unequaled knowledge of the country from the Rio Grande to the Canadian,...
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The economic reforms imposed by Augusto Pinochet’s regime (1973–1990) are often credited with transforming Chile into a global economy and setting the stage for a peaceful transition to democracy, individual liberty, and the recognition of cultural diversity. The famed economist Milton Friedman...
The Long Exile
A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
In 1952, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty, the unrecognized, half-Inuit son of filmmaker...
Wisdom Sits in Places
Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear...
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young, her...
The Colonial Problem
An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Indigenous peoples are vastly overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system. The Canadian government has framed this disproportionate victimization and criminalization as being an "Indian problem."
In The Colonial Problem, Lisa Monchalin challenges the myth of the "Indian...
I Fought a Good Fight
A History of the Lipan Apaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the...